Le colloque annuel Pierre du Bois 2017

ELUSIVE STATE-BUILDING

The Middle East and North Africa

1917–2017

27 – 28 September 2017

The 2017 Annual Pierre du Bois Conference, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation, took place at the Maison de la Paix from 27-28 September 2017. The conference was organized by Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou. At the centre of the conference was the modern-day state-building project in the Middle-East and North Africa, its challenges spanning a century of developments in the region and global influence on the contemporary scene.

Professor Mohamedou and several other participants discussed the conference in a video here. A conversation on “Orientalism Today” also took place between Hamid Dabashi and Mahmoud Mohamedou” which can be found here.